Hmm, perhaps it is because he didn’t make so many bad faces this week as he completed 18 of 23 passes for 296 yards and two touchdowns in the romp over the Tennessee Titans. (I haven’t watched the recording yet, so I’m not sure about his facial expressions.)

...seem to have no words for this one: his celebrate-another-touchdown-in-a-rout face.

Actually, Schaub made me look bad this week. I thought he would be 25-of-31 for 280 yards. Even The King can’t be right about everything.

Anyway, last week I had an interesting e-mail exchange with a reader who was down on Schaub and he conceded a point that I think is interesting.

Most fans watch only the local team’s games. They don’t watch eight or nine NFL games every week, read newspaper reports from 15-20 cities, get Twitter updates second-after-second from hundreds of NFL writers, correspond with a dozen or so NFL players and coaches each week, or get dozens of reports and releases from NFL teams.

In other words, most of you have lives.

A fan might get his or her NFL fix on the Texans’ game and add in the Sunday night or Monday night games if they are any good. When those games are good, the best are typically playing in them. Hence, you see Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees, Peyton Manning and Ben Roethlisberger much more than the next level of QB who are trying to reach that elite level.

If elite QBs are the only ones you see, Schaub probably doesn’t look that good to you.

So, in case you missed some of the weekend action, he is a rundown on the play of some of the QBs a bunch of you tell me you would rather have than Schaub. I’m not going to argue with you that Schaub is better than any of these players (I think he is, but I’m not here to argue), I just thought this might give you some perspective on life in other NFL cities.

Note how some criticism is the same you hear about Schaub, who is fifth in the NFL in passer rating, behind Messrs. Rodgers, Brady and Brees, and Eli Manning.

That's a no-go, Joe. (Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP)

Joe Flacco, BaltimoreThis week: completed 21 of 38 passes for only 137 yards, with 90 of those coming on Baltimore’s only TD drive in the fourth quarter of an embarrassing 12-7 loss to Jacksonville.This season: 26th in the league in passer rating, 32nd in completion percentage, with a lousy 52.1 percent.What critics say:He isn’t fiery enough. He doesn’t get in players’ faces. He doesn’t look mad when he throws interceptions.Head coach John Harbaugh: “It’s about as bad as you can play on offense. I don’t know if we could play any worse than that until that [late] drive.”

Matthew Stafford, DetroitThis week: completed 15 of 32 passes for 132 yards, with 57 of that coming on TD to Calvin Johnson, in an embarrassing home loss to the Falcons.This season: Ranks below Schaub in pretty much every meaningful category except wins (5 to 4) and TDs, but he has been throwing to Megatron, while Schaub has been trying to hook up with Jacobytron.What critics say: Doesn’t make plays out of the pocket. He is brittle. Or as Ndamukong Suh might say, “Go get a cart for him.”Head coach Jim Schwartz says: “It’s not one of Matt’s better games, for sure. … There’s some things we need to clean up, just the tempo of getting rid of the ball and being able to step up. There were times in that game that he had to bail away and make throws. And those happen in every single game. It doesn’t mean you can’t make plays. There’s a lot of plays to be made. But there were also times that he didn’t really need to, that we need to step up in the pocket and make some throws. But, yeah, it wasn’t one of his better games.”

Philip Rivers, San DiegoThis week: Completed 16 of 32 passes for only 179 yards, going 8 for 20 with two fourth-quarter interceptions, as Chargers failed to score in the second half of a loss to the Jets. Threw a pick in the end zone and ran the worst hurry-up offense possible on last drive.This season: Has thrown more interceptions (nine) than TDs (seven) and ranks 20th in passer rating.What critics say: He is a jerk. He is getting hit harder than before and isn’t responding well. His body is sore. Hasn’t helped Chargers get the “it” factor or swagger.Often cavalier about his play, Rivers said: “Everyone wants to know what’s the matter. We’ve been worse.”